North knocker, Mountain View Cemetery

Continuing my inventory of the knockers of Mountain View, this is on the far north end of the cemetery, along the lowest of the three roads back there. It appears to be the coarse, tough sandstone—technically a metagraywacke—that makes up the majority of the Piedmont block. I can’t always tell what a rock is at the cemetery because I can’t whack it with my hammer. Don’t you try that either.

I was thinking this morning that a tour of the stones might be fun. We’d look at the boulders and also some of the odd/interesting gravestones. There are a couple of gorgeous anorthosite markers among the marble and granite.